[CharlesOConnell]

I watched Washington Week in Review in the aftermath of the 1994 Bi-Elections, a massacre of the Clintonistas. The moderators sat in stunned disbelief, there was about a 10 second pause, they were looking to the left and right, they seemed to be imagining the Conservatives ready to bust in the the doors and start beating the feke out of them.

[17th Miss Regt]

You can imagine what they were thinking. Abject fear in half of them. The others were thinking things like “Opposition to Soviet power is a crime”, “The counterrevolutionaries are coming”, “D**n those Trotskyites! We should have won but for their opposition”, “We need to purge the party of ideological deviationism now!” and “The guerillas are the fish, the people are the sea.”